Dominique1 Posted November 15, 2022 Posted November 15, 2022 I allways import my photos in Lightroom and do the first editing. Afterwards I send it to Affinity. It worked well in Affinity Photo V1 but not in the new version. This is really annoying. Quote
Staff Lee D Posted December 1, 2022 Staff Posted December 1, 2022 Hi @Dominique1 Welcome to the forums and sorry for the delay. Please try using the shortcuts to setup external editing that are shown in this FAQ article. There is also a workaround for if they do not work. Quote
cid69 Posted December 19, 2022 Posted December 19, 2022 I'm a 75 yr old "used to be tech savvy" guy trying to get to Affinity Photo 2 from Lightroom. I have read all of this string and anything else I can find on the subject but it's just too darned complicated. Will Affinity Photo 2 have a simple way (similar to Photo 1) to get to from Lightroom. Photo 2 is pretty useless to me without it. Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 19, 2022 Posted December 19, 2022 14 minutes ago, cid69 said: I have read all of this string and anything else I can find on the subject but it's just too darned complicated. The approach suggested in the second post of that FAQ is not complicated: download helper program point LR to the helper program. done. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
SrPx Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 38 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: The approach suggested in the second post of that FAQ is not complicated: download helper program point LR to the helper program. done. If I understood it well, because Windows "knows" the path already (via environment variables) all @cid69 has to do is to paste "AffinityPhoto2.exe" (but without the quotes) in the LR place where he before used to put the V1 Photo location? I guess people is used to hit the button "browse" and look for the executable, but this might be even easier. But if that does not work, put then the entire thing : C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe in that LR field. That is, no " [ ] " symbols, just replace [USERNAME] with whatever is the user he has in his Windows. For example, Cid69. Or.. Robert, Harry, etc. Like : C:\Users\Harry\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe And that for some third party apps or cases it doesn't work well and then have to use the AFlauncher, an utility made to be able to point to Photo for those exceptions. if I understood it right. And anyway, they are going to release a normal MSI installer in the future (I find it fine in any way, btw). Did I get it right ? Quote AD, AP and APub V2.5.x. Windows 10 and Windows 11.
walt.farrell Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 11 minutes ago, SrPx said: I guess people is used to hit the button "browse" and look for the executable, but this might be even easier. Some apps make you browse. (I don't know about LR.) 12 minutes ago, SrPx said: C:\Users\Harry\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe And many seem to object to that form, too. Thus, the helper app is needed more often than it should be. SrPx 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
SrPx Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Yep, I meant that even those that make you browse, pasting the path (in the field for file name) in the next dialog/window and hitting enter typically sends you back to the window with the browse button, with all ready to go (I do this often for many apps), so , imo should work in most cases.... But yep, for putting the name only, AffinityPhoto2.exe, that wouldn't work. Pasting the full path tho is imo relatively simple, prolly easier than the launcher for the very non tech savvy. Thank you for the accurate info! I have not followed tightly several matters... walt.farrell 1 Quote AD, AP and APub V2.5.x. Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Ron P. Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 FWIW, I used Walt's bat file, for LR. Works fine for me. LR does not allow access/using the photo2.exe file. SrPx, PetervL and walt.farrell 3 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD
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